Sean Casey, a former MLB all-star, shares advice from his mental toughness coach Harvey Dorfman: your struggles are normal, but you and I are not normal. The tension between accepting difficulty and pushing beyond it builds the kind of confidence that gets stronger under pressure.
Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another heroic plus one. Sean Casey is one of my absolute favorite people on the planet. As you know, if you've been following along. Sean is a former Major League baseball all star and current Major League Baseball network host who was the New York Yankees hitting coach last season. He's also an incredibly good human being and he's super intense. I can vividly remember driving with him to a heroic investor branch. He's also a big heroic investor and heroic coach. And sweating as he went off sharing a story about a time he worked with the Blue Jays to help them go to the next level. Now, in addition to all of that, he's also insanely funny. So every morning I share my aura scores with him and another dear friend in soul brother and former major League baseball player and big heroic investor and heroic coach and world class mental toughness coach, Brandon Guyer. So the other day we trade our scores and have our typical funny little banter back and forth, which always makes me start my day with a smile. And the night before, Sean led one of his breakthrough pro workshops. So he sends me and BG Brandon Guyer a quick little selfie video about how he started his talk. I got goosebumps as I typed this. The video goes something like this. But actually, before we go there, just a little bit more context. When Sean was playing baseball, he was one of the absolute best players. His mental toughness coach was the legendary Harvey Dorfman. Dorfman literally wrote the book on mental toughness. Check out the notes linked in the now back to Sean's little selfie video. It goes something like this. Boys, last night I had an epic breakthrough pro session. I started the talk by telling them about a time I was grinding in the majors. I called Harvey Dorfman. Now, you only tend to call Harvey when you're grinding. So I tell him what I'm feeling. Then he tells me. Yep, what you're feeling and how you're responding to everything is totally normal, Sean. Then Sean says Harvey told him and you are not insert a certain bomb normal. So pull up the additional bomb together. Yeah, that's today's plus one. Are you facing challenges and feeling overwhelmed and want to whine about it and all that? Perfect. What you're feeling and how you're responding to your challenges is totally normal. And my dear heroic friend, you and I are not normal. Pull it together. Practice your philosophy. Use your challenges as fuel to forge your antifragile confidence. It's day one. We're all in. Let's go.
